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Crime, Media, Culture, Vol. 1, No. 1, 90-97 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1741659005050245

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Teaching her a lesson: Media misses boys’ rage relating to girls in school shootings

Jessie Klein

Lehman College, CUNY, USA, Jklein9797{at}aol.com

An analysis of media coverage of 12 United States school shootings, which took place between 1997 and 2002, shows a previously unnoticed pattern: nearly all the boys who killed in these shootings specifically targeted girls who rejected them, or minimally implied that they acted due to a perceived rejection by a girl. This research highlights the media’s blindness to significant social problems that are hidden behind society’s ‘boys-will-be-boys’ attitude toward harassment of and violence against teenage girls.

Key Words: dating violence • masculinity • school shooting • sexual harassment


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